I mean, the restaurant isn’t tryng to keep it secret, Commander just isn’t tipping off the other guys who might not have ventured down that street yet. People don’t usually explore neighbourhoods they’ve got their routine set in.

I literally know how that works. I recently went to work in part of city that kinda doesn’t have a lot going in for it. It’s an old industrial area with living areas being a bit far from it. I naturally assumed there’s no good place to eat at that part of the city. Until co-worker invited me to lunch. So I asked her where we are going and she tried explaining, I got a bit confused because it didn’t make much sense.

“What do you mean just around the corner, through a tunnel in old factory building?”. Well, I went through the tunnel, into industrial era factory courtyard and… side by side, italian restaurant, some high end place and, of course, a hipster place that by day serves affordable good food and during the night turns into a cocktail bar. And the whole place was filled people.

When I asked anyone I knew, absolutely anyone, they had no idea there were restaurants there. Now it’s my go-to lunch place. And it’s great.

I bet all of them except Ganondorf and the Commander do, now that you mention it. Even if their local Golden Corral is as bad as the one Alexn went to, it wouldn’t occur to them to stop eating there. Commander had to tell them not to eat trash ham!

“Though if the owners moved into a neighborhood with a history of bankrupt all-you-can-eat restaurants because they didn’t bother to research the area, they probably deserve whatever they get.”

You’d be surprised. There’s plenty of strip malls and street corners that have a new business every year, and people never learn. Sometimes there’s a reason(bad traffic flow, bad water, whatever), other times it’s just that that plot is cursed. Either way, as soon as one place closes expect a new one to open with bright-eyed owners who have just a wonderful idea to bring a fresh touch to the area.

Interestingly enough, We’ve seen the full cycle of landords shooting themselves in the foot this way in our neighbourhood. Trendy business set up shop in the area, area got trendier, landlord raised the rent, restaurant shut down, now the space it was in is full of squatters and presumably less desirable to potential renters than it was before the restaurant moved in.

They have certain protections against that here in Canada, but they can be hard to enforce, mostly because with long term Leases or Renting the Renter can’t increase the rent beyond a certain ‘reasonable’ degree from one contact to the next. However, they are within their right to refuse to extend your contact, because a McDonald’s is willing to pay more to take advantage of the prime location you’ve created.

As a 6-foot-4-inches tall dude, I’d love to be called cute or adorable.
It’s honestly amazing how often I’ve had random kids just run up to me while I’m sitting on a park bench, and ask me to play with them. Then again, I spent most of my high school years volunteering at both a daycare center and an orphanage, so I’ve seen many familiar faces, despite it being 5 years since then.

We did some math on this once, if Gaston eats five dozen eggs a day, 78 calories an egg that’s like 4,680 calories. Commander’s physique is based on Brock Lesnar’s, who reportedly eats about 9000 calories a day to maintain his size. So if a guy the size and fitness level of Commander ate five dozen eggs he’d still have 4,320 calories to go (which is like… twice what a normal person eats in an average day).

Chug egg whites instead. Most of the goodness but zero fat and cholesterol. (I’m dealing with gallstones; egg whites, ham and extra lean ground sirloin are my protein of choice because I like not feeling like I have a back ache in my right side.)

The cholesterol in egg yolk has nothing to do with your blood “cholesterol” levels. The former is actual cholesterol, the latter is a protein your body makes to transport cholesterol it makes as well, and has nothing to do with egg intake

The human body can only digest 300 g of protein in one day (and even that is going to screw you up long term). Each egg is 12 g or protein, so about 2 dozen eggs is the most a human can digest in a single day. So aside from getting even fewer calories from those eggs, Gaston must have France’s worst smelling craps.

That’s a common myth, in the same vein as the “human stomach can only hold 16 ounces” myth. In reality, the human body is quite malleable and can adjust to large degrees to cope with various scenarios. For instance, while the stomach at rest only has an internal volume of about 16 ounces, most people’s stomachs are capable of stretching up to about 4 liters (about 135 ounces) before they risk losing elasticity or rupturing.

Similarly, the consumption of protein activates a hormone that slows the digestive process, buying the small intestines the time they need to absorb all that protein. Even better, the small intestines are capable of sorting nutrients, allowing quick-absorbing substances to pass faster while hanging onto the slower stuff. Even if you ate nothing but cakes of pure protein, you’d die of malnutrition or a ruptured stomach before you reached the point where your intestines couldn’t absorb all of it.

Also, it isn’t the protein itself that causes farts to stink, but the sulfur bound to it (which your body promptly discards after extracting the protein).

That’s if your digestive system is working at the top of its game, which a lot of people’s aren’t. If your intestinal lining is inflamed, or you’re not producing enough digetive enzymes, or your gut flora ecosystem is unbalanced towards the wrong types of bacteria, your ability to absorb all the nutrients you consume is limited. It also depends on how spread out your meals are.

Stomach elasticity is also variable and changes based on the size of the meals you eat. A good look at the last two points are competitive eaters. While they show the extreme limits of stomach elasticity, they also show how far you have to go to get that kind of ability (and the limits of a person’s nutrient absorption capabilities).

Cholesterol correlations have proven to be a distortion in recent research. People who eat lots of beef also eat lots of saturated fat and cholesterol. But when people with high saturated fat/cholesterol and low beef diets are separated from high beef diets the low beef group has low all cause mortality rates, high beef has high mortality rates (there are a number of theories about why exactly beef is bad coming out of this, but as of the last time I updated myself there was no clear answer).

World War 2 backs that up pretty well. If I recall correctly, a French unit was pinned down in a zoo during the Nazi invasion long enough to run out of supplies. They ended up killing and eating the animals to keep going. But they left the apes and monkeys alone.

I know French soldiers used to refer to crappy military food as “du singe” (literally “some monkey”) so I thought this was going to be an origin story for this expression, but turns out it wasn’t…

Also, as a side note, French miltary ration has made great progress since the time when we ate “singe”. Apparently, now during operations and trainings involving various nations’ armies, French soldiers can buy literally anything they want off other soldiers for a couple rations.

According to my grandfather (i’m french) it was because during ww1 most soldier were simple farmer and they found it weird to think that beef could look like the meat in a can they had.
And monkey are small creature so you could catch them and you put them in a can
(And that’s how it goes in my family)

Spider-Ham, when he’s on human worlds, loves pork products and doesn’t see the mindless pigs as equivalent to him. And this was written by writers who seem not to know that he was a spider bitten by a radioactive pig.

Heh, the talks on Gerudo genetics are always sort of fun. That said, who is claiming Hylians are human? Humanoid sure, but you could claim they are a race of elves with roughly the same degree of accuracy.

could also be because Moblins(and their various kin) are often piglike in appearance(when they aren’t dogs or mice that is), and it might feel kinda weird to eat something that looks like one of your main types of mook

Jared definitely strikes me as the kind of young skinny guy who is a black hole for food. I don’t imagine he can out-eat, say, Kratos, but I do imagine he can out-eat Jonesy. And Jonesy has quite a healthy appetite. (Though Jonesy probably eats more substantial food, and less candy and chips, than Jared does. Everyone except other young always-hungry guys probably eats less candy and chips than Jared.)

Haha! Yeah, given how you’ve shown us Jones, the most I can really say is that she’s more likely to eat brunch than Jared. I still imagine that if Jones and Jared went into a convenience store, Jones would consider options like jerky and crackers, while Jared would go straight for the candy every time.

I’ve had that leftovers issue with my family before. Particularly with my willowy sister who eats like a bird and often forgets he share in the fridge until it goes bad. I finally told her that if she lays claim to leftovers, she’s got 24 hours to eat it. After that it’s fair game.

As a 6″4 110kg athlete I can assure you it is more food than is worth going out to eat. If I ever go out with friends to eat I meal prep before hand so I can eat when I get home too so I’m not hungry when I sleep.

Now anytime I see your Ganondorf all I can think of the song “Capture You” from Big Bad Bosses, as it is a love song Ganondorf is signing at Link. I keep picturing your Ganon doing it as a way to freak out Link and then the joke goes on so long they’re actually dating and Ganon doesn’t know how this happened.

This is why I buy my eggs wholesale.
Five dozen eggs. Three bucks. Gone in less than a week.
I just wish the US was like the UK, where vaccinating chickens against salmonella is mandatory and you can eat the eggs raw, shell and all.

Huh, I was actually curious about the general price for five dozen eggs. So thanks for that.

I know your weren’t necessarily advocating for eating eggs raw, but would there be a concern of your body not absorbing all the protein due to it not being cooked, or are eggs unlike meat in this regard?

As somebody whose done the egg protein shake, it’s never occurred to me to ask that question. Did some searching and it turns out you were right to ask that question. Isotope marked egg protein shows that only about half the protein of raw egg is absorbed.

I just had a rather random thought and then decided to post it because it’s almost 4:30 where I am right now and rational thought is at a low. It’s shown in various comics that the Commander hangs out with pretty much everyone at the facility he works for in some capacity. Though recent comics (spread out over the past year), have indicated that he seems to prefer spending time with Ganondorf (not that I can blame him, the way you portray Ganondorf is awesome). This long-winded lead in leads to my real question: Of the various people that you see the Commander interact with as part of his job (and any friendships/rivalries that spring up from said interacting), which ones are the ones he likes to hang out with the most? And on the flipside, who does he spend as little time around as he possibly can get away with?

I have to say: this comic has gradually made me adore Ganondorf more than I had ever believed possible. I truly wish I had the capacity to travel into this dimension specifically to hang out with him. This comic gives him such an earnest and approachable character, combined with a remarkably dapper sheik (pun intended), that makes him very memorable. I am always happy when I see him in the first panel of one of these.

Okay, so assuming that the Commander buys the same pastured chicken eggs that I do for $0.50 an egg (using the most expensive eggs my grocery store has to offer). If Commander can’t afford to buy all those eggs individually . . . . that’s a terrifying amount of an eggs.

As per Squid’s calculations up top, say he ate 5 dozen eggs a day (like Gaston) at brunch most days. That accounts for roughly half of his daily food. That’s $210 a week, or $900 a month. That is an awful lot of money for a father of two to be spending on something so expensive to eat.

I interpreted it as eggs at normal brunch pricing — even if it’s $1 per extra egg, that’s even scarier.

For home, I bet the Commander goes for pasteurized frozen liquid eggs — at 5 dozen eggs a day, a 30 pound box would last him a little over 3 weeks, at $65.05 plus shipping (so call it $115). That’s just over $150/month.

30 days of $15 brunch is $450, but there are other things he’ll be eating at brunch (meats, the odd baked good, orange juice).

Plus, the eggs are whole and fried. One gets very, very tired of scrambled eggs. (Though I do like the image of the Commander opening a lunch box at work at exactly 10:30am most days and pulling out a perfect omelette.)

Its actually quite impressive that Ganondorf has the physique to require that kind of caloric and protein intake, rather than just being big-boned and cheating with magic; you usually don’t see that kind of dedication to physical fitness in wizards, much less wizards dual-classed as thief and politician.

The Commander, I see as a traditional, “manly” meal kind of guy… who can also tell you which lettuce type is is favorite and why, and likes a nice raspberry vinaigrette on it. He’s always cooking different foods when his kids are over, not necessarily stuff that he likes, but because he wants them to be able to find the things they like. In a weird way, though, he enjoys it because he has the chance to learn if he likes this weird “boiled in a bag and then seared” steak stuff. (It’s alright, but it lacks the depth in flavor that the charcoal brings.)

Ganondorf is a slightly different beast, in my mind. He’s happier with poached eggs than fried, but hey, when in Rome, right? That’s how I see him when eating out with others that he respects, actually — he orders based off of what they order, and doesn’t complain unless it’s worth complaining about. It’s one thing if he isn’t a fan of blu cheese on his burger, but another if it’s so well done that it’s inedible. At home, I see him eating these fancy meals with complex balances of spices that makes it an adventure for those who come over. Oh, and when someone comes over to eat, he goes all out! It’s a way to show off the pride of his people. Have another glass of this super fancy wine, oh try this my sister gave me the recipe and it’s incredible, oh dear I cooked too much please take some of this food home with you. You don’t go to his house for a dinner, you go to his place for a banquet.

Which is how you end up sitting at home at 2AM, munching on this weird… Well, you don’t know what it is, and don’t really want to know, but it’s tasty and hitting the spot.

Ever since reading that beautiful Zelgan comic who’s artist did a guest comic here a while back, I too have that image of Ganondorf. He’s got a temper and way too much pride for his own good, but if neither of those things are roused I just see him as this incredibly gracious and courteous host who exemplifies the ideal of the Middle Eastern concepts of hospitality. I’d love to go to one of his dinner parties someday.

Exactly. A wonderful host who wants you to experience a good time. It’s not that he wants to show off or anything, but he just wants you to think about it next week and say “Yeah, I had a blast.” Sure, there’s a ton of pride in that, and he always sits a little straighter and grins a little more whenever he sees you enjoying yourself or you mention it afterwards, but that’s the reward for being a good host, right?

Oh, the Commander wants to bring Junebug? She’ll walk out with the most wonderful hair, having spent an hour sitting in his lap, listening to him talk as he worked. She wants to tell a story? He’ll listen to it all. Sacred hospitality and all that.

At least, if this was a tabletop game, that’s how I’d play him when the rest of the party showed up at his place for dinner.

Couldn’t Commander just build himself a Chicken Coop and buy himself like a couple dozen chickens or so to get the amount of eggs he needs daily? Cheaper than probably buying all the eggs in the long run. Or go big and get Ostriches for their giant eggs which are about worth a couple dozen eggs on their own.

When does a space future soldier who also runs a burly dudes reform agency with two kids have time to take care of several dozen chickens, never mind where would he keep them? Unless he uses time travel, in which case he’s working 30 hour days which I doubt he’d want to keep up with. It’s the same reason the average programmer doesn’t keep a cow around for milk to make coffee creamer.

Once a long time ago me and friends went to an all-you-can-eat place.. there you could choose barbecue or pasta
Brazilian all-you-can-eat BBQ is something all (non-vegan) tourists must see once in their lifetimes.
We were about 20 people, some were like black holes when it came about food.
When the waiter saw the troup, he asked: Do you want PASTA (with emphasis) or barbecue (his voice was trembling when “barbecue” came out)?
One of my best friends wondered if he would give the waiter a heart attack, saying that everyone wanted BBQ, but most was going for pasta